Thanks for this information - as I said last night, I may be sent as part of Australian government efforts to help assist in this, and FR is proving rather useful at helping me find information about how bad this actually is, so I can try and work out if I am likely to be sent or not.
This is looking bad enough now that I suspect I won't be going for a while. My job in such situations is to help restore educational infrastructure - reopening schools etc, finding supplies they need. This is pretty important - but if the disaster is bad enough (and this is looking like it is) it's a lower priority than getting other services working. I might wind up going in a few weeks, or months.
Thanks for sharing your duties with us. This does look terrible, life needs will be primary. Good luck to you.